Thursday, May 02, 2013

Amber Rose Shares Breech Birth Ordeal

Long before her due date Amber Rose vowed to give birth at home using a midwife and without using any drugs [click here if you missed that].

In a recent interview Amber explains how those plans went out the window after she discovered her baby was breech...

Amber tells Ricky Lake,

'At 37 weeks one of the midwives said that that big lump right there on my top by my ribs was the baby’s head. My ideal birth plan was just down the drain.'

'I tried mugwort, acupuncture and then my last resort was aversion, which is when you go to the hospital and they manually try to turn your baby. They push his head down and push his butt up… It hurt a lot. It was very painful. I cried.'

'After I tried everything, I was like, "I just want my baby, if I have to have a c-section, fine."'

'I feel like I made the right decision, but I knew right after having a c-section that [with] our next baby I definitely want to have my baby at home.'

How she ended up on the Ricky Lake show, I'll never know. I doubt if she gets her body back and she'd look stupid trying to be all sexified not that she's a mother. What is she going to do? She has no talent except the pole? What if her rapper boyfriend leaves her and ends up broke? What then? How does she plan to stay relevant in the game?

Ricki Lake directed a documentary called The Business of Being Born, in which she talked about how hospitals are not always the best place to give birth because they treat it like an emergency medical condition, and encourage/force moms to get things like epidurals and c-sections when they don't need them. So Ricki likes to talk to celebrities, and I use the term loosely with regard to Amber Rose, about their birth experiences.